The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-05-06
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weighing over 500 tons.
William Brown, of Philadelphia, started
Out Oh lat Friday night tu Kill man whom
he alleged had ured his wife from her home.
He did not fin1 ;he man, but met his wife
and stabbed hex fatally.
Caroline Patterson, aged 90 years, an
Iniian -quaw, died last w k al Red House,
Cat-arauGus c9uuty. SIe has drawn a
peusion for many years on account OF valua-
Bile segvices rendered 10y her husband in tn ?
war of 1872
The Grant relies, Shich have heretofore
been carefully guarded in the National
Museum at Washington, are now placed on
nut lie exhibition. Many Of these are pre-
sehts received from crowned heads IN his
trip arJund the world
An east tcund freight train on The
Penusy Yania Railroad was wrecked on
Tuesday morning at Gap Station. Ten
loaded cars were badly broken and their
contents damaged. Both tracks were
blocklied for several hours.
Nc. 10 breaker Of the Lehigh ana Wilkes
barre Coal Company, situated at Sugar
Notch, three milts from WiikesbaTre
was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning.
u
ing, the fire having extended down the shaft
to dept of 200 feet. The loss SO far is es-
timated at 100000.
Citizen George Francis Train says that
when be stopped eating meat. thirteen years
ago, and began living on fruit aud grain, he
weighed 30 pounds. He now weighs $50.
ana as he IS six feet in height he thinks he
has the correct proportion. He has not been
. i'll an hour since he began fasting.
! AT Locbport, NV York, Mrs. Joseph
Farnsworth, aged twenty i've years has run
away with her husbands father, Nathan
, Farnsworth, aged sixty years. Mrs. Farms
worth left two small children 1t is sup
posed the couple have gone to England, as
, they purchased tickets for Liverpool.
William Coyne, aged twenty-five years,
an empoye of the Mahoning Valley Iron
COMPANY a. Youngstown. Ohio, was drawn
through the rolls on Friday morning at 10
O'Clock and instantly killed. He was to
have been married next Tuesday, and was
The only support of widowed mother
The grain exports so far this year show
a marked Increase over those of last wear
( During last WI, six steamships sailed for
the United Kingdom and Continental ports
with 40. 100 bushels of grain making tie
total number OF bushels exported since
January 1 ,7O8 III, an increase of SOC, coo
bushels over that of the same time last year.
Ike Weir, of Boston, better Known as
the Belfast Spider" and Willie CIarK OF
Philadelphia, fought twenty rounds with
skin-tight gloves on Saturday night. at Long
Island for 81 900. Clark was fearfuIIv
punished out Spider escaped injury
Clark's seconds theIw up the sponge at the
end of the twentieth round.
An Oil City boy has pair of Cochin
China Toosters Of enormous size that be
bitches to a small wagon of his own con
stTuct!On and drives about the premises
On recent Sunday, while his parents were
at church, he hitched up his team, and in
seven loads hauled a tubfuI of chips from
new house that is being built on the mex
block.
The late Alexander Mitchell once asked
his friend, Mr.. Merrill to go into a certain
speculation with him. The latter declined
A few weeks later NJ. Mitchell handed hin
a check for $50, 900. What's this for -
inquired Mr., Merrill. On was the reply
''that's your share of profits in the deal
asked you to 60 into. You though voI
weren't IN. but you were.''
"A conveyance of all the resfduarv estate
of Samuel J. Tfden, exceeding probably 50
600, 600. has been made to the TiIden Trust
and filed in New York Leading LAWYER,
are of the opinion that the action of the ex-
ecutors IN making this conveyance will
prevent the Tilden heirs from getting any
ort p fha
they win the suit no~ pending.
The molten metal Of furnace c, Of The
Thompson Steel Works, worked its way
through the foundation of the cast.house or
Saturday and ran down to the river As
soon as the metal came in contact with the
water terrific explosion followed The
cast-nouse was raised In such manner that
the sides fell in and carried with them q
portion of furnace B. No person was
injured.
On Sunday UOrning, when Jennie Os-
wad, IL years of age, came into the dining.
room of her home, IN Shaler township, Just
beyond the limits of the city of Pittsburc
she found her father. Charles Oswald, sit
ting in a chair with his throst cut and her
younger sister. Bessie, lying on a lounge
dead. It was case of suicide on the part
Of Oswald, end all signs Indicate be mur-
dered bis daughter before cutting his own
throat.
After a day OF summer heat st. Paul,
Mimi, was visited at O'Clock on Sun lay
evening by terrible bail storm, which did
much damage, Hail stones ranged from the
, size OF pea to that OF a goose egg, some
of the largest weighing four ounces and
measuring nine inches in ciTcur ference.
2 Glass was broken wherever exposed. that in
the tower of the State Capitol being riddled
number of small structures, chimneys
etc. were wrecked by the wind.
The bodies of three egrOes, brothers
named Sylvester, were found hanging TO q
4 tree on roadside six miles east OF Proctor
W. Va. Oh Saturday. Each body bore
placard on which was written ''NlggeI
thlevery must be br ken up" The farm
: ers In the neIghborhoOd have suffered de-
: predations at the hands of unknown persons
! and It seems they finally settled on the Syl
: vesters as the guilty ones. These negroes
lived comparatively comfortably, yet scarce
ly ever old any work. No arrests have beer
( made.